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squeezebag · 12-13-2008, 10:55 AM

I've recently relocated to Mexico but have an addiction to the New Yorker. Bought the Sony Reader and have been successfully downloading from RSS. However, the Recipe seems a bit whacked. It misses things, throws in a lot of extra pages, duplicates pages of junk (copyright notifications, how to subscribe, etc.) between each article. What I'm hoping for is a simple TOC in front (like the one found here: feed://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/everything.xml with the ability to navigate from the TOC to an article. I've tried modifying the Recipe with poor results - I'm so unequal to the task as to be comical. I tried just ## everything but the RSS feed listed above and got most of the content but 50% of it was the garbage listed above. Anyone have words of advice? Thanks. Calibre rocks my tiny little world.

kiklop74 · 12-13-2008, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by squeezebag

I've recently relocated to Mexico but have an addiction to the New Yorker. Bought the Sony Reader and have been successfully downloading from RSS. However, the Recipe seems a bit whacked. It misses things, throws in a lot of extra pages, duplicates pages of junk (copyright notifications, how to subscribe, etc.) between each article.

Here is updated recipe together with icon.

squeezebag · 12-14-2008, 09:51 AM

Kiklop74 - You rock! This recipe is exactly what I was hoping for. You made my week.

Gameboy213 · 12-14-2008, 02:06 PM

Anyone have an LA Times Full Version? Or at least more than the little snippet that the current RSS feed gives?
I have tried 1000 times to make a recipe for that and for the Detroit News.... and I am just not up to the task.... I have NO skill at at. I am at the mercy of you kind folks, who understand this stuff!

Much appreciated! What an amazing application.

kiklop74 · 12-14-2008, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gameboy213

Anyone have an LA Times Full Version? Or at least more than the little snippet that the current RSS feed gives?
I have tried 1000 times to make a recipe for that and for the Detroit News.... and I am just not up to the task.... I have NO skill at at. I am at the mercy of you kind folks, who understand this stuff!

Much appreciated! What an amazing application.

What is the problem? You can modify any builtin recipe and add whatever feed you want to LA times recipe. I added just one feed to show that recipe works.

Locate this line in recipe

Code:

feeds  = [(u'News', u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news')]

and add whatever you want

Code:

feeds          = [(
u'News', u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news')
,u'Othernews', u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/otherfeed')
]

Gameboy213 · 12-14-2008, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiklop74

What is the problem? You can modify any builtin recipe and add whatever feed you want to LA times recipe. I added just one feed to show that recipe works.

Locate this line in recipe

Code:

feeds  = [(u'News', u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news')]

and add whatever you want

Code:

feeds          = [(
u'News', u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news')
,u'Othernews', u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/otherfeed')
]

I have very little skill in the area, is the problem.

Whenever I have done that, tried to modify a feed I still only get the first paragraph of the article.... like the LA Times now. That is all I get.

And when I tried to add a feed like the Detroit News, I have the same issue. I can get the first few sentences and that is all. I was hoping to get whole articles like the NYT feed. That is my goal. But perhaps it isn't possible with these 2 feeds.

kiklop74 · 12-14-2008, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gameboy213

Whenever I have done that, tried to modify a feed I still only get the first paragraph of the article.... like the LA Times now.

I get entire news correctly. Only when article is more lengthy we gat part of the text.

Unfortunately LA times has quite complicated rules for making print pages. I'll take a look, but not in any near future.

squeezebag · 12-14-2008, 05:00 PM

Not sure if this is the correct thread, but I couldn't find a closer match. Anyone know how to control the font size in Calibre. I'm using PRS500 so my feeds end up in LRF format. The recipe for the NewYorker (kindly provided by kiklop74 above) renders billboard sized font. On the device I can resize them from huge, huger, and hugest. I'm sure that resizing is something simple but, for the life of me, I can't figure it out.

Gameboy213 · 12-14-2008, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiklop74

I get entire news correctly. Only when article is more lengthy we gat part of the text.

Unfortunately LA times has quite complicated rules for making print pages. I'll take a look, but not in any near future.

No worries. I love the NYT Feed and the Economist Feed.... they work perfectly. The LA TIMES feed is just very small and usually only around 10 articles total. I tried to make the FULL feed and never got it to work correctly and only received part of every article. Same thing with the Detroit News, my old hometown newspaper. If you ever get around to do a recipe for those I would be forever grateful! I will keep trying to figure it myself as well..... just not good at getting it to work correctly.

AprilHare · 12-14-2008, 06:31 PM

Hey, could someone look at the Sydney Morning Herald recipe? The business section is remarkably empty compared to the RSS feed..

zelda_pinwheel · 12-15-2008, 09:22 AM

request first : could someone make a recipe for Libération ? thanks in advance !

now my problem...

i tried to use the new yorker recipe from post 32 and the ars technica recipe which is already available in calibre, but i got error messages and no books each time. anybody know what i'm doing wrong ? here are the errors (i used spoiler tags because they are sooooooo long) :

new yorker

Quote:

Spoiler:

ars technica :

Quote:

Spoiler:

thanks in advance for any help !

kiklop74 · 12-15-2008, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

request first : could someone make a recipe for Libération ? thanks in advance !

Here goes

kovidgoyal · 12-15-2008, 01:09 PM

@zelda_pinwheel

The errors you're getting are the result of a regression in 114, will be fixed in 115.

zelda_pinwheel · 12-15-2008, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@zelda_pinwheel

The errors you're getting are the result of a regression in 114, will be fixed in 115.

thanks kovid ! i'm only just starting to learn how to use calibre and i'll take this opportunity to raise my hat to you, it's an amazing tool. thanks so much for all your work on it !!

zelda_pinwheel · 12-15-2008, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiklop74

Here goes

thank you very much kiklop !! brilliant ! it's not working for the moment but i think that's due to the same error as for the new yorker etc. i'm looking forward to using it with the next build.

cheers !!

12-13-2008, 10:55 AM	#31
squeezebag Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Sony Reader	New Yorker Recipe I've recently relocated to Mexico but have an addiction to the New Yorker. Bought the Sony Reader and have been successfully downloading from RSS. However, the Recipe seems a bit whacked. It misses things, throws in a lot of extra pages, duplicates pages of junk (copyright notifications, how to subscribe, etc.) between each article. What I'm hoping for is a simple TOC in front (like the one found here: feed://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/everything.xml with the ability to navigate from the TOC to an article. I've tried modifying the Recipe with poor results - I'm so unequal to the task as to be comical. I tried just ## everything but the RSS feed listed above and got most of the content but 50% of it was the garbage listed above. Anyone have words of advice? Thanks. Calibre rocks my tiny little world.

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12-14-2008, 09:51 AM	#33
squeezebag Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Sony Reader	Kiklop74 - You rock! This recipe is exactly what I was hoping for. You made my week.

12-14-2008, 02:06 PM	#34
Gameboy213 Connoisseur Posts: 89 Karma: 1024 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA Device: Onyx Boox Note 2 , Kindle Oasis 2018	Anyone have an LA Times Full Version? Or at least more than the little snippet that the current RSS feed gives? I have tried 1000 times to make a recipe for that and for the Detroit News.... and I am just not up to the task.... I have NO skill at at. I am at the mercy of you kind folks, who understand this stuff! Much appreciated! What an amazing application.

12-14-2008, 05:00 PM	#38
squeezebag Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Sony Reader	Not sure if this is the correct thread, but I couldn't find a closer match. Anyone know how to control the font size in Calibre. I'm using PRS500 so my feeds end up in LRF format. The recipe for the NewYorker (kindly provided by kiklop74 above) renders billboard sized font. On the device I can resize them from huge, huger, and hugest. I'm sure that resizing is something simple but, for the life of me, I can't figure it out.

12-14-2008, 06:31 PM	#40
AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	Hey, could someone look at the Sydney Morning Herald recipe? The business section is remarkably empty compared to the RSS feed..

12-15-2008, 01:09 PM	#43
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@zelda_pinwheel The errors you're getting are the result of a regression in 114, will be fixed in 115.

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